Lou Grant (TV Series 1977–1982) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error The trials of the former TV station manager, turned newspaper city editor, and his journalist staff. Creators: The paper is on the scene of a series of brush fires in the California Valley. Charlie, who is on the verge of separating from his wife, makes a last ditch effort to save his home from the fires as ... 9.0 When a well-liked teacher at a private school is accused of molesting a child in his class, Mrs. Pynchon feels that he is not getting a fair trial. 9.0 The unwilling Billie finds herself in the protective custody of a male chauvinist policeman because of what she knows in a grand jury case involving a popular game show host. Lou also learns about ...

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Stars: Pernell Roberts, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Charles Siebert After spending several years in her young adult life in Minneapolis but with her brash Bronx Jewish upbringing in tow and with its associated sarcasm, artistically inclined Rhoda ... See full summary » Stars: Valerie Harper, Julie Kavner, Lorenzo Music The lives and trials of a young single woman and her friends, both at work and at home. Stars: Mary Tyler Moore, Edward Asner, Gavin MacLeod The lives and work of the staff of an inner city police precinct. Stars: Daniel J. Travanti, Michael Warren, Bruce Weitz A veteran cop with more than 20 years of experience is teamed with a young Inspector to solve crimes in San Francisco. Stars: Karl Malden, Michael Douglas, Reuben Collins San Francisco Police Commissioner Stewart "Mac" McMillan and his amateur detective wife keep their marriage unpredictable while solving the city's most baffling crimes. Stars: Rock Hudson, John Schuck, Susan Saint James Two female police detectives cooperate with each other both in their professions and in their personal lives. Stars: Tyne Daly, Al Waxman, Martin Kove The lives and work of the staff of a major Los Angeles law firm.

Stars: Corbin Bernsen, Jill Eikenberry, Alan Rachins The lives and work of the staff of St. Eligius Hospital, an old and disrespected Boston teaching hospital. Stars: Ed Begley Jr., William Daniels, Howie Mandel 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7/10 X Sam McCloud is a Marshal from a Taos, New Mexico, who takes a temporary assignment in the New York City Police. His keen sense of detail and detecting subtle clues, learned from his experience, enable him to nab unsuspecting criminals despite his unbelieving boss. Stars: Dennis Weaver, J.D. Cannon, Terry Carter The cases of a coroner who investigates suspicious deaths that usually suggest murder. Stars: Jack Klugman, John S. Ragin, Robert Ito A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in his city. Stars: Telly Savalas, Dan Frazer, Kevin Dobson Edit Storyline After everyone on the "Mary Tyler Moore Show" got fired, Lou Grant went to Los Angeles and became city editor of the L.A. Tribune, owned by Mrs.

Pynchon, with whom Lou often has loud but sympathetic arguments. Lots of social causes and interpersonal relationships. Written by Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu> 20 September 1977 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Did You Know? Trivia Allen Williams played Financial Editor Adam Wilson and is seen in the opening credits of every show starting with season 2, but never became a member of the core cast listed in the main credits. He also provided uncredited voice overs nearly every time there's a voice coming from a radio or TV set. See more » Quotes (United States) – See all my reviews Immigration reform, hate crimes against gay people, teen pregnancy, illiteracy, eminent domain, Ponzi schemes, etc. If I stop here and ask you to finish this, you might conclude with a summary about Bernie Madoff or other recent event. But these are just some of the many subjects shown weekly on Lou Grant from 1977 to 1982. The stories are over 30 years old but amazingly still every bit as relevant in today's society as they were then.

And just as amazing was the incredible risk Mary Tyler Moore's MTM Enterprises took when she transitioned to producing a hard-hitting drama from 2 decades of comedy experience. After winning 3 Golden globes, 23 other awards, and 61 various nominations (IMDB 2012), the show has proved worth the risk in a big way. I didn't have the education or knowledge of world events (such as it is) to appreciate the show's content when it first aired. But I'm glad I rediscovered and watched these episodes while in a nostalgic mood. Now, I can greatly appreciate how progressive MTM and her staff were in the production of Lou Grant and its relevance to today's events. 8 of 8 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes Lou Grant (Series) - TV Tropes Lou Grant You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account Share YMMV Back row, left to right: Charlie Hume (Mason Adams), Margaret Pynchon (Nancy Marchand), Dennis "The Animal" Price ( Daryl Anderson ), Adam Wilson ( Allen Williams ), Art Donovan ( Jack Bannon ).

Front row, left to right: Lou Grant ( Edward Asner ), Joe Rossi ( Robert Walden ), Billie Newman ( Linda Kelsey ). This Dramatic Hour Long series is a Spinoff of the Dramedy The Mary Tyler Moore Show . Edward Asner reprises his role of Lou Grant from there. After the Grand Finale of The Mary Tyler Moore Show , Lou is now in Los Angeles working as the city editor for the fictional Los Angeles Tribune. He manages to keep his character, in both senses, for five seasons of this. The other regulars were general assignment reporters Joe Rossi (Robert Walden) and Billie Newman (Linda Kelsey) (Kelsey joined the show in the fourth episode, replacing Rebecca Balding, who had portrayed general assignment reporter Carla Mardigian); managing editor Charles Hume (Mason Adams), an old friend of Lou's who convinced him to move from Minneapolis to Los Angeles; assistant city editor Art Donovan (Jack Bannon); photographer Dennis Price (Daryl Anderson), usually referred to as "Animal," and the Tribune's widowed, patrician publisher, Margaret Jones Pynchon (Nancy Marchand).

Tropes: The Alcoholic : While played for laughs in The Mary Tyler Moore Show , the tone becomes serious here, as Lou's drinking problem at times is referenced. At one time, it becomes deadly serious when he is arrested for drunk driving and has to attend a drinking driver's school to get his license back. Author Filibuster : Many Lou Grant episodes dealt with social issues, but it did not come off nearly as preachy as Quincy . Badass Grandpa : Lou Grant has four grandchildren, one of whom is deaf. Benevolent Boss : While Mrs. Pynchon, Charlie Hume, and Lou Grant all had gruff and demanding demeanors, they were all passionate about journalism and preserving its integrity. Bittersweet Ending : Several, including when Charlie Hume accepted his son's decision to join the Hare Krishnas. Bookends : The opening titles for the first season, which begin with a bird in a tree, which is then cut down. And so, we see the process (though, not the whole process, mind you) of how trees are turned into newspapers. The titles end with one Los Angeles Tribune reader using a piece of the day's newspaper she just finished reading to line her bird's cage.

Da Editor : Lou Grant Downer Ending : Lou and the others did everything they could to help an elderly man preserve the apartment building murals he lovingly dedicated to his deceased wife, but despite getting a court order against demolition, they could not stop the wrecking ball. The Chick : Billie From the Ashes : After Lou Grant and all his co-workers are fired from the station in the finale of The Mary Tyler Moore Show , Lou survives and thrives as the city editor of a busy Los Angeles newspaper — and maintains his humanity and integrity throughout the series. Hanging Judge : Lou Grant is held in contempt of court and thrown in jail when investigating reports of a ruthless judge. Head-Tiltingly Kinky : Joe and Billie are undercover in a motel room. Joe starts watching porn on the TV. Billie starts making comments about how silly it is, and how none of it is remotely erotic. Then she stops, tilts her head, and says "Now that's erotic." Hostage Situation : The Trib newsroom was held hostage in the appropriately named episode "Hostages". Intrepid Reporter : The hallmark of the show.

Lou Grant and his reporters braved everything from organized crime to corrupt politicians to natural disasters to bring the news to the people of Los Angeles. Last Name Basis : Rossi and Donovan. Los Angeles : Lou Grant is the City Editor of the Los Angeles Tribune. MAD : Lou Grouch. Mythology Gag : The character of Flo Meridith, Mary Richard's Aunt and a very respected newspaper reporter, was the only MTM Show character to appear on Lou Grant. A running gag during the sitcom episodes had Flo making snide remarks to Lou about being in "trivial" television journalism instead of "real" newspaper journalism. On her first of two appearances on the drama, she congratulates Lou on finally returning to his newspaper roots... although she implies the Trib isn't exactly the most respected newspaper around, thereby keeping their friendly feud alive. Obfuscating Stupidity : Dennis "Animal" Price looks like an unfocused slob, but is an award-winning photographer. One Name Only : "Animal" Price is virtually always referred to by his nickname. Police Are Useless : Many of the problems faced in Lou Grant were too complex to be handled by the police, who were often hamstrung by some flaw of the system.

Reassignment Backfire : Averted. For violating a newspaper policy, Rossi is assigned to the dullest story Lou can think of — profiling a minor state official, who commutes between Los Angeles and Sacramento (he even admits to his subject that he's being punished). But then Rossi discovers that the official is a bigamist, with a family in each city...and gloats that his story is "going to write itself." But in the end, he can't bring himself to ruin two families' lives, and instead turns in a story which Lou dismisses as drivel. Articles about Lou Grant - latimes Ed Asner's longtime home sells in Studio City [Photos] February 25, 2014 | By Lauren Beale If just the mention of the name Ed Asner puts the theme song from “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” in your head, then the actor's longtime Studio City house will likely bring his trademark role -- affable, flawed, curmudgeonly, fatherly editor Lou Grant -- to mind too. Talk about a warm fuzzy. The charming traditional-style home, which sold for $1,306,250, has that real-people-lived-here look.

Described as “quaint” by Realtor.com, which spotted the sale, the place oozes wall-to-wall character. Advertisement Leon Tokatyan; Wrote Pilot for 'Lou Grant' May 17, 1997 Leon Tokatyan, 73, television writer and producer who penned the pilot for "Lou Grant." Tokatyan later wrote and produced several episodes of the Ed Asner series, including three that were nominated for Writers Guild of America awards. He won the award for best writing in 1978 for the episode titled "Vet." Among Tokatyan's other awards were the Humanitas best writing achievement award. ENTERTAINMENT Ed Asner hospitalized after troubles onstage during Indiana show March 13, 2013 | By Christie D'Zurilla Ed Asner was hospitalized for exhaustion Tuesday night in Gary, Ind., after struggling with disorientation during his one-man show, "FDR. " The 83-year-old actor, who has been touring the country with the show for 3½ years, had led an acting class at another location hours before the show, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

The show started 45 minutes late, the paper said, and Asner struggled with lines from the beginning. He was reportedly walked off stage by emergency medical personnel about 15 minutes into the performance. NEWS Alan Cooke; Directed TV's 'Lou Grant' October 22, 1994 Alan Cooke, a British-born director whose credits ranged from television's "Lou Grant" to tours of U.S. college campuses presenting "King Lear," is dead of liver failure caused by hepatitis. A family spokesman said this week he was 68 and died in Los Angeles on Oct. 9. Born in London, Cooke began directing while a he was member of the Coldstream Guards stationed in Palestine at the end of World War II. It was a production of Bernard Shaw's "Arms and the Man." REAL ESTATE Lou Grant's Boss Sells to Batman's May 19, 1991 | RUTH RYON, TIMES STAFF WRITER PETER GUBER, chairman and chief executive of Columbia Pictures Entertainment, has purchased former NBC-TV chief GRANT TINKER's Bel-Air house for almost $8 million, sources say.

Guber shared the Columbia chairmanship with his longtime business partner, Jon Peters, until May 8, when Peters relinquished his post to establish an independent production company. Guber and Peters were named Columbia co-chairmen in 1989 after producing the movies "Batman" and "Rain Man." CALIFORNIA | LOCAL Nancy Marchand; Actress Starred in TV's 'Sopranos' and 'Lou Grant' June 20, 2000 | MYRNA OLIVER, TIMES STAFF WRITER Nancy Marchand, the shrewish, scheming Mafia family matriarch of "The Sopranos" cable television series and the patrician newspaper publisher on the long-running "Lou Grant" series, has died at the age of 71. Marchand died Sunday night, on the eve of her 72nd birthday, of lung cancer in her home in Stratford, Conn., according to an HBO spokesman.

CALIFORNIA | LOCAL Mason Adams, 86; Played Managing Editor on 'Lou Grant,' Was TV Voice of Smucker's April 29, 2005 | Dennis McLellan, Times Staff Writer Mason Adams, the veteran character actor who won acclaim playing the compassionate newspaper managing editor on "Lou Grant" and was a familiar voice in countless radio and TV commercials, has died. He was 86. Adams died of natural causes at his home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, said his family. ENTERTAINMENT Operating in the age when ink and paper were enough December 18, 2007 | Frazier Moore, Associated Press NEW YORK -- When everyone but idiotic anchorman Ted Baxter was fired from WJM News in 1977, Mary Richards and her fellow casualties were left reeling. It was a classically bittersweet finale for the beloved "Mary Tyler Moore" show after seven hit seasons. Then Mary's crusty boss, station news director Lou Grant, made a smooth transition. Within weeks, he had blown Minneapolis and snagged a good job in Los Angeles as city editor of the Tribune.

ENTERTAINMENT Ed Asner: 'I'm always thought of in Hollywood ... as the resident communist' March 21, 2010 | By Irene Lacher Ed Asner is well known to boomers as the gruff editor Lou Grant on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and an eponymous spinoff TV series. With his performance as the voice of Carl Fredericksen in last year's Pixar hit, "Up," Asner, 80, now has many more fans among their kids and grandkids. These days, the Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning actor is touring the country in the one-man show "FDR." Last week, he took a break on a cruise to St. Bart's before Saturday's performance at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts. ENTERTAINMENT Ed Asner asks to urinate on Fox News producer December 8, 2012 | By Meredith Blake A Fox News producer got more than he bargained for this week when he confronted Ed Asner, the 83-year-old actor best known for his role as Lou Grant on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” on the street in New York's theater district.

Rather than fighting back, Asner asked if he could could urinate on the man. Asner's request, while certainly bizarre, wasn't made entirely out of context. The reason for the confrontation, as Sean Hannity explained on his show, was a video Asner narrated on behalf of the California Federation of Teachers. ENTERTAINMENT Another day in paradise for Ed Asner March 19, 2012 | By Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times Ed Asner has developed a knack during his extensive showbiz career for portraying crusty characters armed with a gruffness that camouflages a decent nature and good heart. Those traits were at the core of Asner's most famous role, the crotchety Lou Grant of the landmark "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and its dramatic "Lou Grant" spinoff. But there was a brief moment in Asner's past nearly 40 years ago when he went over to the dark side, playing a villain on CBS' "Hawaii Five-O. " On Monday's episode of the revamped "Hawaii Five-O," he gets to resurrect his bad-boy past. ENTERTAINMENT Ed Asner: 'I'm always thought of in Hollywood ...

as the resident communist' March 21, 2010 | By Irene Lacher Ed Asner is well known to boomers as the gruff editor Lou Grant on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and an eponymous spinoff TV series. With his performance as the voice of Carl Fredericksen in last year's Pixar hit, "Up," Asner, 80, now has many more fans among their kids and grandkids. These days, the Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning actor is touring the country in the one-man show "FDR." Last week, he took a break on a cruise to St. Bart's before Saturday's performance at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts. ENTERTAINMENT Underratedoverrated June 7, 2009 UNDERRATED Jay Bennett: With the release of Wilco's cheekily named "Wilco (The Album)" coming in a few weeks, we were heartbroken to learn that Bennett, co-architect of three of the band's best albums, died in his sleep on May 24.

After a split with Jeff Tweedy, it never seemed he got his due, but he was an irreplaceable part of some classic songs. R.I.P., Jay. CALIFORNIA | LOCAL TV writer had extensive credits December 18, 2008 | times staff and wire reports Robert Schlitt, 75, a writer and producer who worked on such TV programs as "Matlock," "Father Dowling Mysteries" and "The Monkees," died of cancer Nov. 25 at his Encino home, his family said. Schlitt and his writing partner Peter Meyerson collaborated on what became the first episode of "The Monkees" TV series in 1966.

Schlitt continued to write for "The Monkees" and other TV series from the 1960s to the '90s, including "Hawaii Five-O," "The Streets of San Francisco" and "Lou Grant." ENTERTAINMENT Operating in the age when ink and paper were enough December 18, 2007 | Frazier Moore, Associated Press NEW YORK -- When everyone but idiotic anchorman Ted Baxter was fired from WJM News in 1977, Mary Richards and her fellow casualties were left reeling. It was a classically bittersweet finale for the beloved "Mary Tyler Moore" show after seven hit seasons. Then Mary's crusty boss, station news director Lou Grant, made a smooth transition. Within weeks, he had blown Minneapolis and snagged a good job in Los Angeles as city editor of the Tribune. NEWS Nana: Dollars, Sense October 21, 1988 I am appalled by the comparison of Martha Pulliam, Sen. Quayle's grandmother, to Mrs. Pynchon of the "Lou Grant" television show. How ironic to compare a conservative publisher to a character who epitomized the liberal media.

This analogy is as ludicrous as Sen. Quayle's comparison of himself to John Kennedy. It is even more outrageous when one recalls that the "Lou Grant" series was forced off the air by conservative media hounds. ALAN J. LEVY Los Angeles ENTERTAINMENT Television April 22, 1991 | ALEENE MacMINN, Arts and entertainment reports from The Times, national and international news services and the nation's press Asner on 'Trials': The jury (CBS execs) is still out on whether "The Trials of Rosie O'Neill" will be picked up for another season, but if it is, look for Ed Asner to join the cast. "Rosie" producer Barney Rosenzweig says Asner would play "a right wing, bigoted, retired L.A. cop who becomes a private investigator for the public defender's office." That would put him in regular contact with Rosie, played by series star Sharon Gless.

Mason Adams, 86; Played Managing Editor on 'Lou Grant,' Was TV Voice of Smucker's April 29, 2005 | Dennis McLellan, Times Staff Writer Mason Adams, the veteran character actor who won acclaim playing the compassionate newspaper managing editor on "Lou Grant" and was a familiar voice in countless radio and TV commercials, has died. He was 86. Adams died of natural causes at his home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, said his family. SPORTS Looking at History From Inside Out October 8, 2002 | LISA DILLMAN, TIMES STAFF WRITER These were the very early days of Wally World--Wally Joyner's rookie season--and on April 26, 1986, the Angels faced not only the Minnesota Twins but Mother Nature's curveball, too. Play was halted in the eighth inning when that wonderful architectural monument, the Metrodome, developed a hole in its fiberglass roof because of winds of 80 mph gusting through the Minneapolis area. Wind shear brought the outdoors, well, indoors. Torrents of water doused spectators.

Articles about Lou Grant - tribunedigital-chicagotribune 'Lou Grant' actor Ed Asner released from hospital Reuters | March 14, 2013 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Ed Asner was released from a Chicago-area hospital on Thursday, two days after leaving the stage during a performance and receiving treatment for exhaustion, the publicist for the former "Lou Grant" television star said. Asner, 83, was on his way to Los Angeles and was told by doctors to get some rest, Charles Sherman said. The Emmy-winning actor was hospitalized on Tuesday after appearing disoriented at the start of his one-man show "FDR," in... ENTERTAINMENT 'Lou Grant' actor Ed Asner released from hospital Reuters | March 14, 2013 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Ed Asner was released from a Chicago-area hospital on Thursday, two days after leaving the stage during a performance and receiving treatment for exhaustion, the publicist for the former "Lou Grant" television star said. Asner, 83, was on his way to Los Angeles and was told by doctors to get some rest, Charles Sherman said.

The Emmy-winning actor was hospitalized on Tuesday after appearing disoriented at the start of his one-man show "FDR," in... Advertisement Lou Grant, 81 By Los Angeles Times | September 13, 2001 Lou Grant, award-winning political cartoonist for the Oakland Tribune, died Friday. He was 81. Mr. Grant had been nominated for this year's Charles Schulz "Sparky" Award as outstanding editorial cartoonist in the United States. A Los Angeles native, Mr. Grant began his career at 17 as a copy boy for the Los Angeles Examiner. He learned to draw by hanging around the art department and getting lessons from staff cartoonists in exchange for mowing their lawns. He worked as a cartoonist during Army... ENTERTAINMENT The 12 greatest TV series' holiday episodes By Contributing: Maureen Ryan, Kevin Pang, Carmel Carrillo, Steve Johnson, M. David Nichols, Pam Becker, Colleen Mastony, Tim Bannon | December 9, 2008 'The Honeymooners' 1955 One forgets how almost spartan it was in the Kramdens' tiny apartment.

In a "Gift of the Magi"-inspired episode, Ralph hocks his new bowling ball to buy Alice a Napoleon orange juicer (you squeeze the oranges on the emperor's head and the juice squirts out his ears.) For Ralph, Alice buys him a new bag for the bowling ball she knows he loves so much. 'Andy Griffith Show' 1960 On Christmas Eve, town Scrooge and store owner Ben Weaver... ENTERTAINMENT Asner Running Out Of Networks By Gail Shister, Knight-Ridder Newspapers | January 4, 1987 Ed Asner is still angry at ABC and CBS, but he's keeping an open mind about his latest network. "If there's any fair judgment of it, `The Bronx Zoo` is going to make it," says Asner, who stars as the tough-but-compassionate principal of an inner-city school in the NBC drama. The network has ordered a pilot plus seven episodes; no broadcast date has been set. "This is a very good show," Asner says. So was "Lou Grant," but that didn`t stop CBS from suddenly dumping it in 1982 after five...

BUSINESS When old scripts get rewritten By Phil Rosenthal | July 2, 2008 So NBC is driving "Knight Rider" into the era of $4-a-gallon gas, The CW is updating "Beverly Hills, 90210" and ABC is toying with a revival of the short-lived dramedy "Cupid" in hopes viewers will fall in love this time. Coming off a writers strike that depleted fresh material and believing a known quantity is an easier sell to viewers increasingly reluctant to commit to new characters and concepts, studios and networks are rifling through their vaults for old shows to dust off and brush up.... FEATURES Ebb Tide By Stephen Godfrey, Toronto Globe and Mail/Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service | May 11, 1989 What was Ed Asner, ever-famous as TV's gruff Lou Grant and currently starring on Broadway, doing in Montreal recently playing a puddle in a kiddie's show?

"It's a nice-paying gig, it sounded cute and interesting, and I`ve never been to Montreal," said Asner, 59, shortly after completing the last of 13 episodes of "Happy Castle," produced by Cinar Films. It is a children's series in which Asner, seen only as a shimmering reflection in a pool of water, plays the part of "The Well of What in the Land of Betwixt." ENTERTAINMENT Shirley Temple Black receives the... By Jay Bobbin, Zap2it | January 29, 2006 QUESTIONS: 1) Shirley Temple Black receives the organization's Life Achievement Award when TBS and TNT televise the 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday, Jan. 29. The previous honoree, James Garner, was Oscar-nominated for a 1985 comedy in which he played Sally Field's suitor. Name it. 2) The 2003 recipient, Karl Malden, was handed the award by his original co-star on television's "The Streets of San Francisco." Who is he? 3) Edward Asner, a former Screen Actors...

NEWS Asner Returns By From Tribune news services | December 21, 1997 Start the presses. Edward Asner is returning to the news business. Asner, who played a television news producer on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and a newspaper editor on "Lou Grant," will move to the top of the masthead when the new series "Ask Harriet" appears on the Fox network in January. Asner will portray a newspaper owner on the show, about a macho sportswriter played by Anthony Tyler Quinn, who takes on a woman's identity to write a column of advice to the lovelorn. "Ask Harriet" makes its debut on Jan.... NEWS Sheree North By Los Angeles Times | November 8, 2005 Sheree North, a platinum blond bombshell of 1950s musicals who is remembered by younger audiences for her continuing television roles as Lou Grant's sultry girlfriend on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and Kramer's mother Babs on "Seinfeld," has died. She was 72. Ms.

North, who had been in good health, died unexpectedly Friday at a Los Angeles hospital of complications following surgery, said her daughter, Dawn Bessire of Santa Monica. Groomed as a studio glamor girl who could substitute for the more famous... ENTERTAINMENT Shirley Temple Black receives the... By Jay Bobbin, Zap2it | January 29, 2006 QUESTIONS: 1) Shirley Temple Black receives the organization's Life Achievement Award when TBS and TNT televise the 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday, Jan. 29. The previous honoree, James Garner, was Oscar-nominated for a 1985 comedy in which he played Sally Field's suitor. Name it. 2) The 2003 recipient, Karl Malden, was handed the award by his original co-star on television's "The Streets of San Francisco." Who is he? 3) Edward Asner, a former Screen Actors... ENTERTAINMENT Ellen DeGeneres returns to host...

By Jay Bobbin, Zap2it | September 18, 2005 QUESTIONS: 1) Ellen DeGeneres returns to host television's biggest night as CBS airs the 57th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards Sunday, Sept. 18. She won an Emmy herself as a writer for her sitcom "Ellen," but what was the show's original title? 2) Who won five Emmys between 1988 and 1995 as a sitcom title character, then took herself out of competition? 3) Which Oscar winner followed the actress mentioned above by winning the same category the next four years? 4) What was... SPORTS Carter will be missed By Paul Bortolotti | September 1, 2002 Am I the only one who's going to miss Joe Carter? I liked Joe, not despite his malaprops but because of them. To paraphrase the immortal Lou Grant (who was talking about Ted Baxter): With Joe, you know he's going to put his foot in his mouth. What you don't know is how he's going to get the other one in there with it. Farewell, Joe! We hardly knew ye!

---------- Sound off If you have an opinion, drop us a line at Other Views/Sports, Chicago Tribune, 435 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL... ENTERTAINMENT Television gets its latest spinoff... By Jay Bobbin, Zap2it | February 13, 2005 QUESTIONS: 1) Television gets its latest spinoff series as "One on One" spawns "Cuts," a UPN barbershop comedy starring Marques Houston and Shannon Elizabeth that premieres Monday, Feb. 14. "The Facts of Life" was a spinoff of "Diff'rent Strokes"; what was the name of the private school where it was set? 2) Which two shows had the characters Oscar Goldman and Dr. Rudy Wells in common? 3) Before starting his "NYPD Blue" run, Dennis Franz transferred a character he played on... FEATURES "The Mary Tyler Moore Show": When in doubt on the TV beat... By Steve Johnson, Tribune Television Critic | November 1, 1995 "The Mary Tyler Moore Show": When in doubt on the TV beat, recommend a half-hour with the gang at WJM-TV in Minneapolis-St.

Paul (9 p.m., Nickelodeon). Mary Tyler Moore--currently on view in the much less good CBS Thursday night drama, "New York News" and as the promoter of her revelation-packed autobiography, "After All"--here plays single TV news producer Mary Richards, in case you've just tapped into this thing called television. She works with a lovable grump of a... ENTERTAINMENT - What can you tell me about Peggy McCay of NBC's "Days of... By Taylor Michaels, Zap2it | October 3, 2004 - What can you tell me about Peggy McCay of NBC's "Days of our Lives"? She and I were neighbors as teens in New York, back in the good old days (I am 82). --Mary Kennedy, Manchester, N.H. McCay, who turns 74 in November, can look back on a career that started back in television's Golden Age. A native Manhattanite, she landed her first TV role just two weeks after graduating from Columbia University. After touring in a Tennessee Williams play, McCay embarked... ENTERTAINMENT Ellen DeGeneres returns to host...

By Jay Bobbin, Zap2it | September 18, 2005 QUESTIONS: 1) Ellen DeGeneres returns to host television's biggest night as CBS airs the 57th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards Sunday, Sept. 18. She won an Emmy herself as a writer for her sitcom "Ellen," but what was the show's original title? 2) Who won five Emmys between 1988 and 1995 as a sitcom title character, then took herself out of competition? 3) Which Oscar winner followed the actress mentioned above by winning the same category the next four years? 4) What was... SPORTS Carter will be missed By Paul Bortolotti | September 1, 2002 Am I the only one who's going to miss Joe Carter? I liked Joe, not despite his malaprops but because of them. To paraphrase the immortal Lou Grant (who was talking about Ted Baxter): With Joe, you know he's going to put his foot in his mouth. What you don't know is how he's going to get the other one in there with it. Farewell, Joe! We hardly knew ye!

---------- Sound off If you have an opinion, drop us a line at Other Views/Sports, Chicago Tribune, 435 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL... ‘Lou Grant:’ Newspapering the way it should be - DVD Extra DVD Extra ‘Lou Grant:’ Newspapering the way it should be By Robert Kolarik on June 7, 2016 at 2:44 PM Print The mid-1970s was a great time to be in the newspaper business. Papers still were a big part of most people’s lives. Most big cities still had more than one paper, and, even if they were owned by the same company, actually competed against each other. Computers, with all the promise and fears they bring, were just making their way into newsrooms. The idea that a metropolitan newspaper could go belly-up – except in some unusually extreme circumstances – was so ludicrous as to not be believable. Mobile phones, what few there were, were confined to the interiors of rich men’s limousines. Best of all, the average person had never heard of the internet. It was into this world that “Lou Grant,” perhaps the best show about the newspaper industry ever produced, premiered Sept.

20, 1977, and ran for five successful years on CBS. To take us back to those thrilling days of yesteryear, Shout! Factory has released “Lou Grant: The Complete First Season” on DVD. The second season is to go on sale in August. The Lou Grant character, played by Edward Asner, had started as a Minneapolis TV station manager on the comedy “Mary Tyler Moore Show.” After the station’s entire staff was fired on the last episode of that program, Lou ended up in Los Angeles, where his life became a drama as the city editor of the fictional Los Angeles Tribune. From the first show on, “Lou Grant” frequently touched on issues that, at the time, were edgy as prime-time TV fare: sexual abuse of young girls by police, a male author having had a male lover, a Jewish man who so hates his own identity that he becomes the leader of a band of neo-Nazis, the changing role of women in the workplace (specifically at the Tribune itself) and the never-ending problem of spousal abuse. The program wasn’t about preaching against social injustice, however.

Instead the stories were about existing situations and were told in a straightforward manner, with the interactions of the characters eliciting the audience’s sympathies. If there was one unrealistic thing about the show, it’s that even today – in an era of reduced expectations and, more importantly, reduced staffs – big-city newspapers are ensemble operations. It takes a fairly large group of people just to fill up the space on the pages. Although there always were lots of workers in the Tribune’s newsroom, Lou Grant spent virtually all of his time dealing with just six people – Publisher Margaret Pynchon (Nancy Marchand), Managing Editor Charlie Hume (Mason Adams), Assistant City Editor Art Donovan (Jack Bannon), Reporter Joe Rossi (Robert Walden), Reporter Billie Newman (Linda Kelsey) and Photographer Dennis “The Animal” Price (Daryl Anderson). The city editors I’ve known over the years would have been dancing in the streets if they only had to deal with six people a day. Having just graduated from journalism school when “Lou Grant” premiered, I was naturally fascinated with the program.

I recall reading at the time that before the show was launched, some of the writers and actors had spent time in the newsroom of the old Los Angeles Herald-Examiner to get a feel of what working at a newspaper was like. Asner himself told my wife about this one time in the early 1990s. My wife then was working as a night auditor at one of San Antonio’s top downtown hotels. Hearing that Asner was to be in the city for a function and was scheduled to check in there, she asked one of the front-desk people to tell her when he arrived so she could sneak a peek at him (hotel staffers were under strict orders to never bother celebrity guests). When the actor arrived, the check-in person popped into the night audit office to announce he was there. My wife was busy right then, so she decided not to go see him. About 20 minutes later, the front-desk person returned, huffing, “Come on! He’s waiting for you!” It turned out that person had told Asner that someone wanted to talk to him.

Naturally, my wife figured the actor would be angry about having to wait, assumed he’d complain and concluded that she would get fired for bothering him. She immediately apologized, telling Asner that she’d just wanted to see him so she could tell me about it. He asked why, so she explained that I was working at the San Antonio Light and regarded him as one of my idols. Asner was delighted to hear that an actual newspaper person had liked his show and proceeded to talk with her about what he’d done on “Lou Grant” and what I did at The Light for an hour. And, no, she didn’t ask for his autograph. But she did have a drink (Scotch, since that’s what Lou Grant would have ordered) sent up to his room for being so nice. Extras: Don’t bother looking for outtakes, gag reels or the dreaded director’s commentary. However, there is a recent interview with Asner. Also, the shows themselves feature lots of scenes shot on the streets of Los Angeles, so there’s an endless parade of 1970s-vintage automobiles in the background.

Bottom line: For collectors of vintage TV series and newspaper aficionados, “Lou Grant: The Complete First Season” is an absolute must. For everyone else, it offers enjoyable, well-told tales that they’ll probably end up binge-watching. Lou Grant: The Complete First Season Shout! Factory, 1 110 minutes, not rated, 22 episodes, 4 discs DVD retail price: $39.97 TV: Lou Grant - hail - Parallax View by Richard T. Jameson , Television The first season of the seventies TV series Lou Grant debuts on DVD this week. To mark the long-awaited debut, Parallax View is featuring a pair of pieces about the series originally published during the run of the series. The companion piece is here . [Originally published in The Weekly, November 30, 1977] He’s stacking frozen dinners in his shopping cart when he notices an attractive woman, fortyish, coming in out of the blank L.A. sun. She turns down another aisle; he decides he has to go to that part of the market too.

She can’t quite reach a box on the top shelf; he gets it for her, gives an amiable no-sweat smile, cannily steers his cart elsewhere. A minute later, he’s back beside her at the produce section. She smiles politely. He grabs an avocado and beams, “These are really great here!” Her smile gets a little strained as she glances around the commonplace market: “Here?” “California….” He’s losing the moment. “The only trouble is, there’s too much for one person. No matter what ya do, that other half is gonna turn black”—his cowpie grin spreads wider in desperation—”and rotten“—things aren’t going quite the way he hoped—”and slimy!” She’s gone. As anyone of taste and discernment must know, Lou Grant lost his job at the end of last TV season when he and Mary Richards and Murray Slaughter—everybody except Ted Baxter—got fired from the news department at WJM-TV, Minneapolis. It was The Mary Tyler Moore Show‘s unorthodox way of writing finis to itself after seven years as one of the most successful comedy series in the annals of the medium.

The MTM team wanted to quit while the show was still at top form—an admirable ambition, but one that threatened to leave a number of fine character actors at loose ends, and at least one splendidly ripened (far from rotten or slimy) character in syndicated limbo. For Ed Asner’s Lou Grant, more than any other cast regular, had markedly evolved throughout MTM‘s run. He got older, fatter, balder, less bluntly totalitarian as boss of the newsroom, more nuanced in his eccentricities. His marriage tottered, collapsed; he got divorced, managed to attend his ex-wife’s second wedding. He even survived getting laid by Sue Ann Nivens, the Happy Homemaker. He became more expansive in his emotions—without, be it firmly insisted, forsaking his irascibility, his mildly sadistic sense of humor, his inveterate delight in discovering that his Goody Two-Shoes associate producer and leading lady was capable of petty human failings. The guy was worth reprieving, and Lou Grant testifies to his resiliency.

To move from producer of a local television news show to managing editor of a Los Angeles paper may be no career wrench, but in other respects Lou has taken a considerable leap: From the cozy ensemble environment of a half-hour sitcom series to the lead in an hourlong show. From the bright, three-walled, studio-set topography of the WJM newsroom and Mary’s apartment to a broken-field, three-dimensional world washed by the changeable light of day. From the generically safe precincts of a comedy series filmed before a live, appreciative audience, to a laugh-trackless, movie-style narrative that refuses to label itself as comedy, drama, or even comedy-drama. Ed Asner is Lou Grant From the first, the proportions of the show have been fascinating. Here’s this program with at least seven ongoing principal characters, plus a sizable number of coeditors, department heads, security guards, et al. who recognizably turn up again and again as the flow of life and business at the Los Angeles Tribune demands. All these people had to be introduced, set in motion as characters at the same time everyone but new arrival Lou Grant had to appear well-established in what they do. Tricky problem.

For the most part, it had been resolved before half the premiere episode was over. Then there’s the matter of episodes. A series is a series, it continues from week to week, yet each installment has to be built around some plot nexus or (the M*A*S*H syndrome) several tenuously parallel but not necessarily one-to-one minisituations that can be played off in the vicinity of one another until showtime has been filled. Lou Grant‘s copious supply of regulars admits of the second approach readily enough. What’s especially satisfying is that, even with a single-hook script, the program has yet to succumb to that series bane of bringing a guest star and his story to the fore while the house cast becomes so much furniture to make him comfortable. Lou Grant has never shifted its primary focus from the people who inhabit it, and there is always time for character-enhancing digressions like Lou’s trip to the market. Yet—consistent with its naturalistic filming, and quite unlike MTM—the show has managed to make every episode an anecdote about the newsgathering game that has drawn these people together.

The newsgathering game, not the news: it’s significant that the weakest episode to date—something concerning an American neo-Nazi who was born a Jew—was the one whose ostensible subject matter was too bizarre to permit the customarily adroit balancing act with the story and the story-about-the-story. Linda Kelsey as Billie Newman Aside from Lou himself, the most intriguing cast regulars are a pair—and sometimes, reluctantly, a team—of young reporters played by Robert Walden and Linda Kelsey. Joe Rossi (Walden) is ill-mannered, presumptuous, and only about three-quarters as streetsmart as he thinks he is, which is still pretty smart; he looks rather like a coarse-featured Howdy Doody. Lou devotes most of their interactions to kicking his wise ass—with covert fondness, of course, because the guy can be a good reporter when he manages to stop visualizing his name on a Pulitzer scroll, and he is not unlike a junior version of the managing ed. himself. Both of them have a hard time getting used to the fact that Billie Newman (Kelsey), a boyish-shaped redhead with a face out of Meet Me in St.

Louis, spends most of her off-work hours moving from one intense, thoughtful, guiltless sexual liaison to another. The off-work hours are few, and Billie’s dedication to her job has cost her more than one lover. The life adjustments have been registered indirectly, in passing, never thrust forward to become Topic A of an episode. Neither has anything but Billie’s performance of her job and her conspicuous wholeness of being been necessary to make the liberationist point. Robert Walden as Joe Rossi and Daryl Anderson as Animal Proportion, always that nice sense of proportion. Very wisely, I think, neither “Animal” (Daryl Anderson), the scruffy staff photographer just young enough to have missed the counterculture, nor Donovan (Jack Bannon), the Ivy League stud at the desk to Lou’s right, has been called upon to carry a significant part of any episode, although their presences have come to feel more comfortable and less market-researched as time goes by.

Someone has also wisely decided that Nancy Marchand, as the Katharine Graham–type publisher upstairs with her glasses on a chain and a pekinese in the out basket, is too heavy-artillery to write into more than every second or third installment; but she drops her iron hand on Grant’s shoulder with fine style. She needn’t be around all the time because editor Charlie Hume (Mason Adams) never forgets to wonder whether Mrs. Pynchon would approve of the story Lou wants to put on page one. I’d watched three Lou Grants before I placed Adams’s likably bland voice as that of a series of soup commercials. The subliminal connection is exactly right for the sort of fellow who would go to the wall with you, except that he promised his mother he’d lead a long and successful life. But Hume, like the other folks at Lou Grant, spills out of his die-cut outline every now and then: sometimes he strikes his forthright pose and the anticipated “—with reservations” just doesn’t come. Mason Adams as Charlie Hume and Nancy Marchand as Mrs.

Pynchon I understand none of the new TV shows has been a big hit, and I’m half-afraid that Lou Grant is too low-key and generically rangy to win a vast following. People don’t seem to be talking about it. Still, it’s survived the early cancellations, and Ed Asner’s new co-players are well on the way to establishing the sort of credible camaraderie that helped make MTM an institution. Personally, I haven’t missed a Tuesday yet—and I haven’t done that for a TV show since the first year Gunsmoke was on. Copyright © 1977 by Richard T. Jameson Share this: Articles about Lou Grant by Date - Page 2 - latimes ARTICLES ABOUT LOU GRANT BY DATE - PAGE 2 CALIFORNIA | LOCAL Lou Grant, 81; Wry Cartoonist September 12, 2001 | MYRNA OLIVER, TIMES STAFF WRITER Lou Grant, award-winning political cartoonist for the Oakland Tribune and the Los Angeles Times Syndicate whose caricatures grace the National Archives and the libraries of presidents he skewered, including Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B.

Johnson, has died. He was 81. Grant, who had been nominated for this year's Charles Schulz "Sparky" Award as outstanding U.S. editorial cartoonist, died Friday in his Oakland home of heart failure. Advertisement Dramedies: Lest We Forget January 21, 2001 I was most impressed with Mimi Avins' knowledgeable and thoughtful piece on "dramedies" ("Back to the Future of TV," Jan. 14), but I think she gives short shrift to the two primary milestones that preceded "Hill Street Blues." The three-story structure, which in "Hill Street" Steven Bochco expanded to five or more intercut stories, was pioneered by easily the best dramatic series of the late '70s, "Lou Grant." "Grant" also started its life as a dramedy, a one-hour spinoff of the half-hour "The Mary Tyler Moore Show." ENTERTAINMENT Saluting Mrs. Pynchon June 24, 2000 In Howard Rosenberg's column about the wonderful Nancy Marchand, he intimates that the four Emmys Nan won for playing Mrs.

Pynchon on "Lou Grant" somehow didn't measure up to her work as Livia on "The Sopranos" ("Excellence, From 'Marty' to the Mafia," June 21). In his words, "TV drama was not nearly as good as it is today, and meaty roles for women were rare." This sort of denigrates the worthiness of "Lou Grant," of which those of us who worked on it are obviously rather proud: It was nominated for 56 Emmys and won 13, as well as being awarded the Peabody Award, three DGA awards and two Writers Guild awards. CALIFORNIA | LOCAL Nancy Marchand; Actress Starred in TV's 'Sopranos' and 'Lou Grant' June 20, 2000 | MYRNA OLIVER, TIMES STAFF WRITER Nancy Marchand, the shrewish, scheming Mafia family matriarch of "The Sopranos" cable television series and the patrician newspaper publisher on the long-running "Lou Grant" series, has died at the age of 71.

Marchand died Sunday night, on the eve of her 72nd birthday, of lung cancer in her home in Stratford, Conn., according to an HBO spokesman. NEWS Leon Tokatyan; Wrote Pilot for 'Lou Grant' May 17, 1997 Leon Tokatyan, 73, television writer and producer who penned the pilot for "Lou Grant." Tokatyan later wrote and produced several episodes of the Ed Asner series, including three that were nominated for Writers Guild of America awards. He won the award for best writing in 1978 for the episode titled "Vet." Among Tokatyan's other awards were the Humanitas best writing achievement award. CALIFORNIA | LOCAL Something's Rotten in Relevanceland : Media: Is the TV script our equivalent of Shakespeare? Or just easier on college minds? November 29, 1994 | HERBERT GOLD, Herbert Gold has written many books but no TV sitcoms. "If you back me against a wall," says a professor at Syracuse University, quoted in the Nov.

13 New York Times, "I would say ostensibly, as a piece of art, 'Hamlet' is in some ways superior to 'Lou Grant.' " While you have him backed against that wall, would you please throw a pie at his face? I'm not mentioning his name because I don't want to embarrass the committee that awarded him his associate professorship. NEWS Priscilla Morrill; Played Lou Grant's Wife on 'Mary Tyler Moore' November 22, 1994 Priscilla Morrill, 67, veteran supporting actress of stage, film and television. Her Broadway credits included "A Touch of a Poet," "Still Life," "The Night of the Iguana" and "The Relapse." But she won wider recognition in recurring roles on the television series "Coach" and as Lou Grant's wife on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show." She also appeared on "Newhart," "Bagdad Cafe," "Blossom" and "Mr. Belvedere" and in movies for television such as "Marilyn" and "The Trial of Jean Harris." On Nov.

NEWS Alan Cooke; Directed TV's 'Lou Grant' October 22, 1994 Alan Cooke, a British-born director whose credits ranged from television's "Lou Grant" to tours of U.S. college campuses presenting "King Lear," is dead of liver failure caused by hepatitis. A family spokesman said this week he was 68 and died in Los Angeles on Oct. 9. Born in London, Cooke began directing while a he was member of the Coldstream Guards stationed in Palestine at the end of World War II. It was a production of Bernard Shaw's "Arms and the Man."

Question: Working for the Los Angeles Tribune, who played Lou Grant in the TV series of the same name?
Answer: Ed Asner